Thursday 8 January

Good Day even if a little damp

 Rain overnight and it has washed a lot of silt into the river.

 Hairy Curtain Crust - Stereum hirsutum this is one of the most common fungi that I seem to find.

It crops up on most of the fallen trees in the valley. Hairy Curtain Crust - Stereum hirsutum

Back of Top Lodge, the muddy looking part has been dredged it was once the Mill Race Channel

Take Care

Sunday 2 February

Damp milder morning, did not get wet.

Canada Goose

Goosanders trying to avoid me

Hairy Curtain Crust Fungi

Scarlet Elf Cup

Tuftie in front and a Little Grebe heading for overhang so I can not get a photo :(

Take Care

Sunday 19 January

Showers this morning

 Canada Geese waiting for us

 Silt that has washed into the lodge caused by the heavy rainfall

 This channel comes through Burgh Wood

 Footpath along side the Big Lodge

 ID as Velvet Shank never seen it so jelly like

 Coot

 The wet weather is bringing out the fungi

 Hairy Curtain Crust - Stereum hirsutum

 Strange shape for a tree almost like it has been struck by lightening years ago

Hazel - Corylus avellana

Take Care